Do not cross Aishat Maksudova. The Russian grandmother was tending to her livestock when a wolf attacked her village of Novo Biryuzyak, Dagestan. So she cooly axed it in the head.

Metro UK has the full story, including an excellent video of Maksudova describing and pantomiming her valiant struggle with the wolf, but her descriptions of the encounter paint a pretty good picture of the scene, and how unfazed she was by the whole thing:

[I was] not even frightened. With an open mouth, the wolf suddenly jumped on me. [It] clawed into my leg and when I raised my arm up the wolf was just holding my hand; trying to claw my hand.

Maksudova reportedly "wanted to throttle the wolf to death" but was forced to rely on her trusty axe (Maksudova is pictured below, axe in hand) when she was unable to free her hand from the wolf's vice-like jaws.

A babushka is the scarf head covering and an affectionate term used I believe exclusively in Russian for a busha or grandmother. Both words, scarf babsuhka and grandmother busha are common in most slavic languanges.

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posted on 11/17/2012 11:27:50 PM PST
by mosesdapoet
("A voice crying in the wilderness make streight for the way of the Lord")

When that lady was 18 she was a fabulously cute young Russian babe who hunted nazis like squirrels and shot them dead with a scoped Nagant rifle.

Then in the evening, not knowing whether the next day would be her last, she drank vodka and partied and ate (not that there was all that much good food around, mind you) like it was literally her last night on earth.

Then she'd get up the next morning and go shoot more nazis.

Obviously at some point she must have gotten some practice taking them out in a more up close and personal sort of way.

Gee... all those years in between... I wonder what must have happened to her husband when he messed up...

Just sayin'.

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posted on 11/18/2012 5:59:32 AM PST
by OKSooner
("I will bless those who bless thee, and I will curse those who curse thee.")

I’m not conversant in the slavic languages. Ztudi baba in Polish was a derisive term for a doddering old woman. Babushka was the head scarf.. Chefchena means pretty girl and if you wanted ro make out with a Polish lass you would not call her a ztudibaba or even panye, but chefchena works like a charm.

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posted on 11/18/2012 7:28:07 AM PST
by mosesdapoet
("A voice crying in the wilderness make streight for the way of the Lord")

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